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Loup City Northwestern i - I GEO. E. BENSCHOTER, Ed. aad Pub. LOUP CITY, - • NEBRASKA, f ‘ -- — . Thinking about work is enough to make sotue people tired. A soft answer turneth away wrath, end sometimes bill collectors. -| And the man who paid ?300 for a first edition of Shelley in London is j named Wise. All a person has to do with his troubles these days is to get outdoors and forget them. Any automobile ran be stopped in its own length, if what it runs into is strong enough. About the only open-work stockings that are being worn now are those that need to lie darned. It is just like a mother to do her son’s problems in algerba for him, and then to be proud of him for it. The man who has been married three times may be a pessimist now, but lie wasn’t a little while ago. When Paris apes Newport by doing "smart set” honors to a trained monkey imitation ceases to be flat tery. The man who writes sixteen-page love letters before he is married thinks n ten-word telegram is very long after ward. I’rinee “Cupid' says that the way to pronounce his name is “Kal-e-auy-o-a !a.” It sounds a good deal like a col lege yell. Another girl has found a husband by writing her name on an egg. That's cheaper than paying railway fare out to Seattle. “It takes a mighty good memory,” remarked the philosopher, “to lie able to forget the tilings one don't want to remember.” The people of Boston want their harbor made wider. But that would only make it. easier for the enemy's war ships to get in. Still, in spite of all this unprece dented record breaking, it will prob ably be some time before the cne ininute horse gets here. The nature of the “compromise” in the Alaskan boundary decision ap pears to be that the United States got the hide and Canada the tail. All the newspapers in New York but one supported Low, but the one mod estly remarks that it has more readers than all the others put together. The cable anounces that Russia and Japan have settled their differences. This perhaps means that Russia settles Manchuria and Japan settles Corea. Premier Balfour thinks there is no danger of a war between Russia and Japan. In that case let's hurry and get excited again over the situation in the Balkans. A Cleveland cotnpany proposes to insure bank depositors against loss. Is not this rather an uncertain way to increase the stability of our fltaan eial institutions? Even if the man in Washington wanted to complain to the President that ho was being pursued by air ships is right about it. Prof. Langley can easily prove an alibi. What seemed the utterly incredible story that a man had laughed himself to death over a joke in a New York theater Is now explained. The joke was told him behind the scenes by a stage hand. A German physician has discovered that rheumatism ir. contagious and has built an isolation hospital for his pa tients. What he has discovered is nothing new. All vice and all virtue are contagious. Kaiser Wilhelm should rest assured that, if he wishes to challenge, i nclc Sain will find as much pleasure in taking the cup away from him as from any one whom he happens just now to call to mind. It appears that some of the mem bers of the British parliament do not know that New York state and New York city are not one and the same thing. And New York is so English, too, don't you know! A Portland man has been cured of swearing through watching the peace ful pigeons of the city. Let him never attempt to cultivate a garden or the suburban chickens will undo all ihe work of their cooing cousins. We are a democratic and modest people and therefore merely mention the fact that the pallbearers at the funeral of W. L. Klkins represented $10,000,000,000. In some countrles giv en to ostentation this would be played up as a feature. It Is not stated whether the Chicago man *bo combined 1,000 gallons of cider with carbolic acid gas, old bot tles and counterfeit labels, and sold the produce to the Chlcagoesc for champagne at $4 a quart, came origi nally from Connecticut. The elderly man with the diamond horse-shoe scarfpin and the thick soled brilliantly polished shoes, who was sitting near the door, rolled his unHghted cigar around in his mouth and turned to his companion. “Yes,” he said, “you might say that it was a gift. If a dog has got any thing in him I can bring it out. I know Just how to handle ’em. It makes me sick to think of the good dogs that are running loose around the town that ain't got a particle of ejercation—dogs with sense that only wants a little training to be a credit to the man that owns ’em. I can take a dog and make a gentleman of him. Now that dug out there-” He opened the car doof, admitting a rush of cold air that made the wom an shiver who was hanging to the strap over his head, and gazed out on the rear platform where a bright, in telligent-looking collie was sitting, re ceiving the admiration of the platform passengers with an air of dignity min gled with satisfaction. “Is he all right?’’ inquired the other man. “He's all right." said the dog’s own or. as the dog half rose and wagged his tail furiously. "Only,” he added, with a severe eye on the dog. "he's taking up too much room there. Sup pose you turn around and lie down there in that corner so'st there's room for somebody else on that platform besides you,” he suggested, and the dog promptly turned around and crawled to the corner indicated, where ne curled himself up in the smallest possible space. "There.” said the man. triumphant ly. "all he wants is a hint.” Ho leaned back in his seat, forgetting to close the door. "Isn’t it wonderful!" exclaimed one of the standing women, addressing the one who had shivered. ‘Very,” replied she, changing hands on her strap ami sighing wearily. "It’s a pity, though, that there aren't some capable dogs that would take a man and make a gentleman of him* She looked at the dog's owner as she spoke and ho appeared uncomfortable. By the Ancient Mariner There has been found, presumably In a garret, a hitherto unpublished manuscript by Samuel Taylor Cole ridge. It appears to have been the intention of the poet to write a second “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” show ing how that famous old salt on an occasion subsequent to the one com memorated in immortal verse met an other wedding guest, this time a lady. Thu poem was not written, but the marginal notes make its outline and plot as follows: “1st. The Ancient Mariner meeteth another wedding guest, this time a fair ladye. "I’d. She is bedight for t'le nuptial feast, and, being a little late, Is hury ing to the church to witness the cere mony. “3d. The Mariner holdeth her with his glittering' eye and beginneth his gloomy tale. “4th. She endeavoreth to break away, and offereth the aged man the price of a drink, which he accepteth but nevertheless continueth his tale of woe. “5th. She explaineth that she hath a pressing engagement, but he still holdeth her with his glittering eye. “tlth. She heareth in her mind the strains of the Wedding March, and seeth in fancy the bride walk down the aisle, and is agonized by the thought that she will not be there. “7th. But he still holdeth her with his glittering eye and she cannot choke him off. “8th. But, at last, she niaketh a great effort and giveth the Ancient Mariner such a tongue-thrashing that j lie cannot get in another word edge- ; wise. “8th. He trieth hard to get in the ' albatross story, but in vain. He real- > izeth that he is up against it. “loth. Then, wagging his head dole- i fully, he turneth away, a sadder and a wiser man. And never from that j day did he stop a Wedding Guest of ; the female variety.”—William E. Me- ! Kenna in New York Times. The “City of Crickets" “San Antonio ought to be called the :ity of crickets,” said a man who has Just returned to New Orleans from Texas to a Times-Democrat reporter, "for I never have found as many crick ets anywhere on earth a3 I found out there. The streets are literally filled with them. It. is not simply a case of the cricket on the hearth. It is a case of cricket everywhere you go. I have been trying to figure out why it is that these insects are so plentiful la the Texas town in question. At night they swarm around the elec tric lights like the bugs we ".re famil iar wWi in other places. Ic is impos sible f* walk along the streets without stepping on them. And there is just a tiit of poetry about .the situr ' ui in San Antonio with respect to cricket life there. The people generally look upon them with a feeling of affection, and it is a rare thing to see a citizen show any sort of indifference to thn mem bers of this interesting family. No | man would think of treading on a ! cricket. They take particular pains j not to do anything that would in any ! way injure the lives or limbs of crick- I j ets. I was speaking of the poetry of ! the situation. It is a fine thing to . hear the crickets crooning early in the ! | evening. They chirp as cheerily as if j they were hidden away in the weeds | of some romantic hedge or on the , hearth which has been immortalized ! in verse and song. Men hurry along the streets; women brush along with their musical skirts, and all the while the crickets keep on crooning their 1 little love songs, just as if the pulses j of humanity were not beating about ( them. It is interesting, picturesque, poetic, and if I had my way, I would j christen San Antonio the ‘City of Crickets.' I think the name would add color to a city already romantic ; in its rich coloring.” The Decline of Babylon Ancient Babylon was the alluvial and of the Euphrates ami the Tigris region, about equal in size to tho Italy of to-day, and was the granary of the ancient world, ' with a phenomenal wealth of vegetation and pahn forests and olive orchards and vineyards. Canals dug in various directions serv ed to store the waters and to irrigate the land, and at the same time wore the avenues of commerce and trade. Indeed, the Babylon of tho Biblical period was the Holland of antiquity. Eo^ery king found his glory iu the extension of the waterway system, and from the days of Hamurabi through many centuries the work of tin* ruler in this regard proved to be the greatest blessing to the country. The whole country was practically one vast garden, northward from Babylon, between Hillel and Bagdad, according to the wonderful reports of Xenophon, Amntainus, Marcellinus and Zosmius, the last mentioned find ing as late as the fifth Christian cen tury vast vineyards and olive groves throughout the land. In the time of the early Arabian califs no fewer than 3t><> cities and villages are mentioned by name along these canals. Pliny de clares this to have been "the most fruitful land in the east.” Now, on the other hand, it. is a in ary desert, the playground of the storms and winds. In the southern portions there are still some remnants of the canals left, but the two famous rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, are no longer connected, and between Bag da! and Bassora a few English steam j houta can scarcely force their way. Beautiful Land of Where There’s a beautiful land in some sweet clime. 'Neath the light of a cloudless sky, Where the meadows are fair with bios som# rare. The riters of rapture by. There are hilltops kissed by the shimmer ing sun, All , loth. 1 In their verdure green. And streams that glide with a ripple of pride To the valleys that lie between. It Is there that the weariest soul may rest. And the saddest of hearts may sing, For the heov-;»st care that mortals l>car Soars away on willing wing. 'The spirit of pence Is o'er the land. And love reigns a Monarch there. In that glorious clime of the after-time. The beautiful land of Where. lou may close your eye# for a moment. sw*et. And lot you will tarrying be In the,*, mystical land, where the #11 vsry sva.nd Is caressed by the sleepy sen. Hut the fairy who waved her magical wand Has power for only awhile. And th« radiant gleam was u vanishing <1 ream, I.ike the light of a fleeting smile. Ci when and how shall we wander away To the haven that lies bsynnfl — To the don blest of rapture and rest, (»f all Hint la fair and fond? The poet sings of it many a time, Hut it shines afar, like a glimmering star— The beautiful land of Where. It is far beyond the desert of toll And over adversity's sen. Where the light of day fades never away And sorrows no more shall be. We must climb the beautiful hills cf hope By the pathway of patience fair, And at last we shall rest In that region blest, The land that await* u»—where? —Arthur Bewls Tubb*. LESSON X. Goblen Text "Tlio feitr of the Lord Is (lie liegiunittg' of w lulum."—Pruv. 11:10. L The First Movements of the Young King.—The first duty of Solo mon was to become firmly established in his kingdom. II. The State of the Kingdom.— The kingdom had reached its highest glory and widest extent at the death if David. It was in perfect peace, and thoroughly organized. The fullest de velopment of materia! prosperity and greatest splendor are associated with ihri reign of Solomon. Hut there was as yet no central, overmastering, uni fying place of worship. 121. The Great Religious Assembly at Gibeon.—V. 1. Gariy in his reign Solomon held a great national gath ering of the leaders of the kingdom, more fully described in 2 Chron. 1: 2-G. The object of this great assembly was to unify the people under Solo mon, to show the nation that he stood by the religion a.al the God of his fariiers, to extend the influence of re ligion over the nation, to learn the sentiments of the people, and to bring all into harmony with himself and his plans. the work to be done. 3 “Thy ser vant is in the midst of thy people.” That is. is s;et over them as a king. "Which thou hast chosen. ’ It was not only a great nation, but the nation chosen to represent God before the world and carry out his kingdom and teach the world his truths. All this was a far greater responsibility than the rw'ing of an ordinary kingdom. “A great people, that cannot be num bered.” This was a common and nat ural expression for a large number. It would have been very difficult in those days to get the exact number of the people. Practical. 1. Every one should use his reason in determining his course. Carelessness and indifference arc crimes in a youth. 2. Every one is a little child in the presence of God and eternity and the vast issues of life*. There is a great deal which the wisest man cannot know for himself. All need divine guidance, light and strength. VI. Solomon Makes the Wise Choice.—V. 9. “Give therefore an un derstanding heart.” Wisdom for the administration of his duties, wise prin ciples, and wisdom in the application of them to the nation. Solomon’s own descriptions of wis dom imply that it rests upon a moral basis. No man can he a wise judge or wise king who is not first a good man. “The fear of the Lord is the be ginning qf wisdom.” VII. The Divine Approval. The Choice Followed by a Double Bless ing.—Vs. 10-15. The choice was made in a dream, hut it expressed Solomon's real desire. 10. “And the speech pleased the Lord.” Why? (1) It was right, noble, unselfish, like God him self. (2) It rendered it possible for God to give him large measures of the best things in all the universe. (3) It furnished an opportunity to give many other things. God loves to give. He givps us ail we can beneficially re ceive. The more he can give us, the better he is pleased. IV. All Ways or Life Open Before Solomon for His Choice.—V. 5. The Dream. The religious services were closed, and Solomon retired to rest with a mind elevated by religious fervor, and the greatness of the work before him burdening his spirit. Then in answer to Solomon’s sacrifices and prayers, ‘ the Lord appeared to Solo mon in a dream.” There are not a few instances in the Bible where God spoke to men through dreams; as to Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Pharaoh (interpreted by Joseph), Solomon, Dr.uiel, Nebuchadnezzar (interpreted by Daniel), Joseph the husband of Mary, Pilate’s wife. Paul. In Job arc two instances of instruction through dreams.—the vivid vision of Eliphaz (Job 4: 1347), and in the speech of Eiihtt (Job 33: 13-18). Tho Option. "And God said, Ask what I shall give thee." “There is nothing good for us in all his treas ures of wisdom anti knowledge which he is not most ready, with abounding fulness, to impart. The Lord is never displeased with large asking—so that it be proper asking—and his free bounty delights to surpass the largest requests and most audacious hopes of the petitioner.”—Kitto. Practical. 1. ’’That blessed and most loving offer is made to every human soul. To the meanest of us all God flings open the treasuries of heaven. We fail to attain the best gifts, because so few of us earnestly cesire them, and so many disbelieve the offer that is made of them.”—Far rar. 2. You must choose. "People think that it is possible for them to post jone making a choice. Hut it is not. Yo-day every one in this school will again choose between godliness and the service of the world; for if you do not choose the one. by the very re i-itsal to choose that, you choose the cither.”—Schau flier. Choosing is a test of character. It ii not what -we get, but w'hat we choose; not money or poverty, but the lave of money; not success in gaining iJeasure. but what we seek first, that t?sts us as to what we really are. What we have and what we do often depend on many things outside of our selves. What we choose is the work c-.f our hearts and wills. V. Considerations that Guided Solo mon's Choice.—Vs. 6-8. Solomon, be fore deciding what to choose, careful ly considered his circumstances and reeds, thus showing that well-balanced rnind on which it was possible to be stow the gift of wisdom. First Reason. The memory of what God had done for his father was a motive for walking in the same ways, receiving the same favor, and carry ing out to perfect fulfillment what hi* father hail begun. 6. “Thou hast shewed . . . great mercy.” All that had come to David was a gift of mercy. He had no claim on the kingdom, no right to demand the position he had received. “Walked before thee in truth,” in sincerity of heart, in true devotion. He was true to all his duties toward God. “In righteousness.” His duties to ills fel low-men. This was the general course of his life. “This great kindness,” withheld from Haul. “That thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne.” It it: a great favor to have God’s bless ings to us continued to our children, and tints to make our influence for good enduring. 11. “Because thou hast . . . not asked for thyself.” The selfish man cannot receive the gifts God gave to Solomon, and he ought not to re ceive what he selfishly asks for him self. Selfishness is of hell, not of heaven, and bears the blossoms and fruits of the place to which it belongs. The First Blessing. The Wisdom he Asked For. 12. “Lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart. So that there was none like thee before thee,” etc. This has been literally fulfilled in history. He had "wisdom and understanding exceed ing much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore" (1 Kings 4: 29). The Second Blessing. The Worldly Fruits of Wisdom. 13. “I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked.” Here we see a striking illus tration of that law of the divine gov ernment, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall he added unto you” (Matt. (1: 33; Luke 12: 31).—Cook. “Both riches, and honor.” See the next lesson. 14. "And if thou wilt walk in my ways ... I will lengthen thy days.” The promise here is only con ditional. As the condition was not observed (1 Kings 11: 1-8), the right to the promise was forfeited, and it was not fulfilled. He died at the age of CO, ten years younger than his father David. 15. “And Solomon awoke; and, be hold, it was a dream.” But the re sults were real, because what was done in the dream expressed what Solomon really was and actually chose. “And he tame to Jerusalem.” his home, and the other sanctuary where the ark was placed. Here he continued the sacrificial feast. Note. (1) Solomon asked nothing merely for himself, but everything for the best doing of the work put into his hands. This was noble and divine. (2) He sought real worth, not outward show. (3) The higher good brought with It all the lesser blessings, and doubled their value. (4) His choice was immortal. The things he chose could not he taken away except by his own will. We all need continually divine wis dom in order to discern between evil and good, between the good and the better. It is a blessed thing that God is willing to give us wisdom liberally. 4. "The case, as presented here, Is good both for proof and for illustra tion of the principle that when men ‘covet earnestly’ and supremely the best gifts, God loves not only to give these best things thus preferably and supremely sought, but to throw in the lesser things as unasked gratuities— In business phrase—’into the bargain.’ Give your full heart and chief en deavor to seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and God will see to the filling of your cup with earthly good as may be best for you in Ilia sight.’’—Cowles. There is a deep lesson for all in the ; order of God’s ffiTts to Solomon. Wis dom and righteousness first, then worldly blessings. ‘‘Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteous ness”, then it is safe to give all other things, and not till then. Wealth can safely increase in a community only J as fast as religion and morality pre vail. Then it is a great opportunity, a means of advancing God's kingdom, uirhes. like fire, are "a good servant, hut a had master.” Second Reason. He din not seek his present position, but it was con ferred on him by God. 7 "Thou hast made thy servant king.” The fact that God has put a man in any jiosi tion of trust or duty creates an obli gation to fulfill the trust and perform the duty. Third Reason. His youth and inex perience. “And I atn but a little child.” He was young and inexpe rienced compared with his father, who came to the throne after u youth of activity, and ten or twelve years of special •raining, and seven more us king over a small kingdom. “I know not how to go out or come in.” This expression is proverbial for the active conduct of r-ITairs. See Num. 27: 17; Dent. 28: C; J. Sam. 18: 13. This was a strong reason for asking of God the things he decided to ask. Fourth Reason. The greatness of Ths Cheesemaker’s Side. There has been a good deal said it? the agricultural press about cheest factories running only In summer. 1< is generally argued that they shoulc run the year around, that the produc tiou of milk in winter might be en couraged. That Is an ideal conditioi to bo looked forward to and hoped for But for the present little can be ex pected in this way. The cheesemaker is compelled to follow the course that will yield him a profit. Recently Mr J. R. Biddulph of Bureau county, lilt nois, gave to a representative of th6 Farmers’ Review the cheesemaker's side of this question. He said: “The cheese industry in Illinois is not im proving much, for there is no one to stir up the cheesemakerR. In my im mediate locality there is an improve ment, but it is not general. More flats are being made than ever before, because many of the factories have u home market for them. Flats weigh Irom 32 to 40 pounds, while Cheddar cheeses weigh from 50 pounds up. There are four cheese factories with in a radius of seven miles from my house. None of them make butter, but some of them run the year round. Mine run3 from April first to Decem ber first, every day. I do not believe a factory should run all the time, nor do the merchants. They think the factories should shut down so they can have a chance to work off their stock of cheese and fill up the following sea son on fresh goods. However, if we had milk enough to permit us to run all winter, we would have to run. Dur ing the month of December we gen erally run every other day, and that is the way %he factories do that run all winter. But it is a poor plan to run all the time, if it is necessary to run every other day. A factory that does that seldom makes enough chees6 to pay expenses in the months when they are doing that. The most I ever received in the month of December, when i was running every other day, was $50, and that did not pay ex penses. We gre using now between 1.500 and 5,ooo pounds of milk daily. 1 do not buy the milk outright, but make it Into cheese at so much per pound. The patrons take the cheese and sell it themselves. They go to town and trade it for groceries, dry goods and other things they need.” Milk From Silage. It would be interesting to bear from some of our readers that have silos and feed their children on milk made from such silage. The Borden Milk Condensing Company will not permit the farmers that sell them milk to use silage as a feed, no matter how good that silage may he. They claim that tnilk made from such materials is un fit for the use of babes and that the latter are always made sick when they use milk made from silage. One of the Borden Company declares mat the farmers that have silos will not feed their own young children on milk so made. We feel certain that this is not so, and that if any users of silage take that position It is for the purpose of be ing on the safe side of a proposition of which they do not feel quite certain, rather than because they have any definite information that milk from silage is unhealthful. The company also asserts that milk made from silage is a poor keeper, on account of the unusual amount of acid It con tains. Is this true? It would appear not to be, as Mr. Curler of De Kalb, Illinois, sent silage made milk all the way to Paris, France, and it arrived in that city in a perfectly sweat con dition, and no preservative of any kind was used in it. This would look as if milk made from silage keeps fairly well. This milk did not begin to get “off" till it was seventeen days old. The fact that other condensaries in the country permit the use of silage would seem to indicate that other milk condensing companies hold a dif ferent view from that held by the Bor den Company. It Is certainly to bo hoped that some experiments will be started to demonstrate the value of silage made milk as a food for infants. Coal Tar Colors Excluded. From the first use of coal tar col ors in butter there has been a great outcry against them. The people that object to their use declare that these colors are very injurious to health. The makers of the colors have de clared otherwise, and have asserted that if the colors were poisonous when used in large quantities, the amounts used in butter were so small that they could injure no one. There havo now and then been reports of chil dren drinking the butter colors and being poisoned fatally by them. On’ this point we must say that the Farm ers’ Review has tried to discover the truth of some of these reported cases, but has never been able to even get a reply from the families in which such tragedies were reported to have oc curred. We have very serious doubts as to the truth of these reports. But if the coal tar colors are injurious in any way they should not be permitted to bo sold in any state. The state of Minnesota has taken that view of it and has passed a law prohibiting their sale after January 1, 1904. Vegetable Colors have been used In butter for so long that records do not trace their first use. The old and reliable source of this coloring is annatto aud colors made from that plant are not pro scribed by the laws of any state. It is likely that many other states will pass laws against the use of coloring matter made from coal tar.